Greek post-sludge metallers Allochiria just released their third full-length album, Commotion, via Venerate Industries on April 23rd, 2023.
With this new release, Allochiria pushes the boundaries of their sound, delivering a mesmerizing mix of post-sludge, prog-sludge, post-black metal, and post-metal that combines melody and heaviness with groovy guitar riffs, eerie melodies, and otherworldly screams.
Commotion was created and recorded during the COVID-19 lockdowns while the band members lived in different countries of Europe. The album thematically explores humanity’s existence, loneliness, the suffocation caused by our repeating routines, resisting change, wars, and crimes against humanity. However, it also offers a glimpse of hope with thoughts of resistance and freedom.
The album features nine tracks, each expressing the band’s emotions and feelings during the period of isolation, anger, anxiety, and melancholy.
The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Jacopo Fokas at Villa Giuseppe and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios.
With Commotion, Allochiria proves that they are one of the most exciting and innovative bands in the post-sludge genre.
Tracklist:
- We Have Nothing
- 9
- Still Life
- Shedding Character
- Ocean
- Interlude
- Casualties
- Turning Point
- Darklight
Fans of Cult of Luna, Amenra, Gojira, and Russian Circles will be thrilled with this album. It is available in digital, CD, and LP formats.
Check out the single We Have Nothing, taken off of Commotion, below:
Upcoming shows in Romania
Allochiria are in the midst of their European Tour, together with Their Methlab. This tour will pass through Romania as well, so check out where you can catch their concerts:
- 12 MAY 2023 – Timișoara, in Manufactura Club
- 13 MAY 2023 – Cluj, RO in Hardward Pub
- 14 MAY 2023 – Bucharest, RO in Quantic Club
For more info on the Bucharest gig, you can head out the official Facebook event here. For tickets, head out to the iaBilet platform.
This summer, between 2-8 August, Allochiria will also join the Rockstadt Extreme Fest ranks in Râșnov, alongside bands such as Meshuggah, Dropkick Murphys, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Architects, Zeal & Ardor, The Ocean, While She Sleeps, Employed to Serve, Villagers of Ioannina City and many more. Grab your ticket for this amazing festival now via the IaBilet Platform or the Rockstadt Extreme Fest official website.
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